October Update

What we did this month!

Letters & Sounds

• Hh (running in place with hand over mouth)
• Rr (pretend to be a puppy ripping a rag)
• Mm (like something is delicious)
• Dd (playing drums)
• Oo (turning a light switch on and off)
• Uu (opening an umbrella)
• Gg (water going down a drain OR drinking water)
• Ff (a raft deflating)
• Bb (swinging a bat)
• Ll (lick lollipop)
• Ww (hands below chin-- pretend wind)

Reading Strategies: 

• Stretchy the Snake
• Flippy the Dolphin (flip the vowel sound to the short or long sound if the word doesn't make sense)

Sight Words:

• Pink
• Purple
• Yellow
• Red
• Blue
• Black
• Brown
• Orange
• Green
• White

Math:

• Learning numbers 0-10
• Quantity discrimination-greater than less than
• Missing numbers in a sequence
• Counting to 35
• Starting addition with numbers 0-5

Writing:

• Labeling pictures
• Matching picture to writing
• Adding details to pictures
• Using sight words to make sentences

Celebrations:

• Color Weeks
• Halloween

Whats coming up in November?

• Conferences November 10th and 12th from 330-830pm
• Mr. Germ presentation: November 6th 
• Thanksgiving break: November 25-29th
• Report cards go home
• Thanksgiving classroom celebration November 24th 

Rainbow Day!

Purple Day!

Owl Day!

Our Star of the Week: Evan

Bucket Filler Lunch!

I had a great time having lunch with these bucket fillers today! 

Yellow Day!

Red Day!!!

Our Star of the Week: Talia

Blue Day

Halloween Dance

COLOR WEEKS

These next 2 weeks are COLOR WEEKS:

Monday: wear blue
Tuesday: wear green
Wednesday: wear red
Thursday: wear yellow
Friday: wear purple

NEXT WEEK:
Monday: wear pink
Tuesday: wear white
Wednesday: wear orange
Thursday: wear black
Friday: wear as many colors as possible

Our Star of the Week: Harrison

Swimming Lessons

Thanks for inviting me to watch you do swimming lessons Jaelyn! 

Ideas to Learn Letter Names and Sounds at Home

Before your child knows the letter names or sounds:

1. Alphabet Hunt & Match- find things throughout your house that start with the flashcard letter.

2. Trace - Place tracing or tissue paper over the cards and have your child trace the letters.

3.  Sort - Use the monkey, giraffe, chicken method to sort lower case letters.  (Monkey letters have tails, giraffe letters are tall, and chicken letters are in between.) Or sort by round and straight.  There's no wrong way - you just want them looking at and thinking about the letters.

4.  Make your own set of alphabet cards using index cards.

5. Decorate - use 8x10 paper and make a set of alphabet cards- good ideas on pinterest of crafts to make with each letter.

When your child knows some or all the letter names and sounds:

6. Spread the cards all over the floor.  Call out a letter and have your child jump on that letter.

7.  Work together to arrange the cards in alphabetical order.

8.  Match each card to an object that starts with that letter.

9.  Slap Jack - play Slap Jack using the letters in your child's name as the Jacks.

10. Alliteration Game - each player takes turns choosing a card and listing as many words starting with that letter as they can think of in 15 seconds.  Each word is one point.

11.  Word Game - once they've mastered the alliteration game, move on to listing words that end with the letter.  Once they've mastered that, try listing words with the letter in the middle.

12. Letter Pictionary - One player chooses a card without showing the other player. They draw something that starts with that letter while the other person tries to guess the object and letter.  

13. Letter Charades - same as Letter Pictionary but acting out instead of drawing.

Halloween Dance

Don't forget to come to the Halloween Dance at Carollton on Friday, October 16th from 6-9pm! I hope to see everyone there.

Our star of the week: Shea

Swan's Pumpkin Farm

I hope to see you all tonight at Swan's Pumpkin Farm (5930 Co Hwy H, Franksville, WI 53126) for "Carollton Night" 4:30pm-6:30pm.